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I'm going through one of those periods in which I keep thinking about things I want to write here, but can't muster the time to write them. The madness of last week, in which I traveled to the Bay Area, back and forth between Tucson and Phoenix, and then headed to Albuquerque for the ASA, has made a margin call on my personal resources. Plus, we're experiencing that strange time of year in which the body struggles to cope with change. Highs in the 90s give way to lows in the 50s, sometimes even colder. And then there's the election here in the States, which seems to be all I can spend my free hours thinking about. This is all by way of asking you to bear with me, until I can once again contribute more regularly to your reading.

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Charlie Bertsch
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ABOUT DE FILE
You're looking at content from my Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2003. I consider it a personal blog, though it lacks stream-of-consciousness revelations that typify that genre.

That said, if you manage to discern the confessional mode within entries that are superficially tight-lipped, I will reward you handsomely. Or at least pretend to do so.

In addition to reflections, however mediated, on my daily activities, De File features periodic excavations of material from my "files," a revelation sure to disturb anyone who has seen my garage. It's an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way.

Politics is always on my mind, but rarely explicit here. I’m working on a theory about what personal writing like this does to literary identification and why some people resist its pull so powerfully. But my goal is to make that theory dissolve in my practice, a density in liquid.

You'll note that I have links to blogs not on LiveJournal directly above, as well as assorted websites of note. The blogs I read regularly on LiveJournal itself fall under "FRIENDS" at the top, for those of you unfamiliar with LJ’s workings.

You can write me. I'm "cbertsch" before the circle-a and "comcast.net" after it.
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